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NBPCB Board Members

Officers
Fredric Schroeder Photo Fredric Schroeder, PhD, NOMC
President
Vienna, Virginia

Research Professor, San Diego State University; President, International Council on English Braille; Master's Degreed O&M instructor; former director of Special Education programs for the Albuquerque, New Mexico schools; former Director, New Mexico Commission for the Blind; former Commissioner, Federal Rehabilitation Services Administration
Christine Boone Photo Christine Boone, JD
Vice-President
Kalamazoo , Michigan

D. Boone Consultants
Edward Bell Photo
Edward Bell, PhD, NOMC
Secretary/Treasurer
Ruston, Louisiana

Director, Professional Development and Research Institute on
Blindness at Louisiana Tech University
Board Members
Allen Harris Photo

Allen Harris, ME


Birmingham, Alabama

Joe Cordova
Joe Cordova
Honolulu, Hawaii

Administrator, Hawaii Vocational Rehabilitation and Services/Blind Division; former Regional Commissioner, Chicago/Kansas City region, Rehabilitation Services Administration; former national director, Division for the Blind and Visually Impaired, Rehabilitation Services Administration; former deputy director, New Mexico Commission for the Blind
James Gashel
James Gashel
Colorado

Vice President of Marketing, KNFB Reading Technologies; former Director for Governmental Affairs, National Federation of the Blind; former Director, Iowa Orientation and Adjustment Center for the Blind
Lea Grupen Photo
Lea Grupen, MEd, CRC
Honolulu, Hawaii

Branch Administrator, Orientation Center and Field Services Director at Ho'opono Services for the Blind, Hawaii Vocational Rehabilitation and Services for the Blind in Honolulu, Hawaii
James Omvig
James Omvig, JD
Arizona

Author and consultant on issues concerning blindness; former Director, Iowa Orientation and Adjustment Center for the Blind, Handicapped Employment Program, Office for Civil Rights, Social Security Administration and Alaska Center for Blind and Deaf Adults
C Edwin Vaughan Photo C Edwin Vaughan, PhD
Atherton, California

Former University professor; author of numerous books in the
blindness field
Pearl Van Zandt Photo
Pearl Van Zandt, PhD
Lincoln, Nebraska

Director, Nebraska Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired; Peer reviewer for the Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness; and former President of the National Council of State Agencies for the Blind
 
Jeffrey T. Altman MA NOMCT CVRCB
Lincoln, Nebraska
 
Orientation and Mobility Instructor, Nebraska Center for the Blind, National Orientation and Mobility Certification Trainer's committee, Certified Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor for the Blind -- State of Nebraska, Former Chair of the NOMCT committee.